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Athletics 2026: Australian Cameron Myers wins Diamond League 1500m final, Jakob Ingebrigtsen slams field after race, full results Australian Cameron Myers has established himself as a distance star on the rise by taking out a fiery 1500m race at the Diamond League finals. In an event marked by plenty of jostling and several elbow blocks, the 20-year old took victory in Brussels ahead of a stacked field that featured Olympic champion Cole Hooker and champion runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Myers’ time of 3:30:14 was four-hundredths of a second ahead of Kenyan runner-up Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech. “I’m pretty relieved to be honest,” Myers told Athletics Australia after the win. “I’m super pumped – it’s pretty cool memorabilia to have a trophy like that.” Myers, regarded as arguably Australia’s best Olympic chance in the men’s 1500m since 1960 gold medallist Herb Elliott. He set a national record time of 3:28:00 to win at the Paris Diamond League in June – the second-fastest run anywhere in the world this year. He also claimed silver in the men’s mile at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, coming in behind local hero Josh Kerr. However, Ingebrigtsen stole headlines in the aftermath with a brutal swipe of the entire 1500m field for their tactics – with the exception of Myers. “S***y. Terrible. Extremely disappointing,” the two-time Olympic gold medallist said of the race. “Very disappointed with the racing and the result. “Racing against a bunch of cowards, but that is what it is. “Of course everyone is racing to win; however, there is a little bit of honour in terms of racing to win. “It’s only Cameron who did a good race. “Everyone else looks like losers. Me included.” Ingebrigtsen also claimed his going to ground near the end of the race was a dive for the finish line rather than a fall. Sprint stars Oblique Seville and Julien Alfred won their respective races on the opening day of the two-day finals. But the evening’s entertainment was mired by the withdrawal of Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis with a tightness in his leg that had resurfaced at last week’s meet in Zurich. “I pushed through it, probably a little bit too much. I said that if I felt this irritation during my warm-up, I wasn’t going to jump,” the US-born Swede said. Duplantis admitted he was not certain to make the inaugural season-ending World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest next week. “I don’t have the answer right now,” he said on whether he would be fit enough to compete in Hungary where there will be a prize money pot of $10 million. To make Duplantis’s night even worse, Greek rival Emmanouil Karalis won the pole vault with a meet record of 6.12m, beating by 1cm the previous best set by the Swede in 2024.